Description
A PAIR OF CAPARISONED LAPIS ELEPHANTS, QING DYNASTY
China, 18th-19th century. The animals well carved with detail work to their tusks, ears, trunk and feet, finely decorated in gold and black lacquer with a saddlecloth showing lotus flowers amid their vines and leaves and a key fret border.
Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence by descent in the same family. Weifert was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
Condition: Good condition. Some wear and scratching to gilding. Old wear and natural fissures to stones. The bases with extensive wear and traces of use.
Weight: 3,366 g total (the elephants) and 509.2 g total (the bases)
Dimensions: Length 15 cm (each elephant)
The massive, opaque and calcite-rich stone is of striated blue and ivorywhite color with minuscule metallic inclusions. Fitted with carved hardwood stands from the late Qing dynasty. (4)
一對帶皮青金石大象,清代
中國,十八至十九世紀。大象細節雕刻異常精心,並用金色和黑色清漆描繪。大象背部鞍座上飾有荷花荷葉。
來源:Georg Weifert (1850-1937)收藏,同一家族保存至今 。Weifert曾爲塞爾維亞中央銀行大班以及塞爾維亞、克羅地亞與斯洛文尼亞聯邦銀行大班。
品相:品相良好,金彩処有一些磨損和劃痕。老磨損,石料有天然裂縫。底座磨損嚴重,有使用痕跡。
重量:大象總重3,366 克,底座509.2克
尺寸:大象分別長15 厘米